Welcome to the British History Podcast.

My name is Jamie and this is episode 172.

The Keltcast.

I assume it's going to be part one.

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And as thanks for helping keep the community going, I offer members only content such

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If you're interested in supporting the show and helping us out, you can do so over at

the British History Podcast.com and thank you very much to Dan, Amy and Nicole for

contributing already.

As you probably know, the members' feed is currently focused upon the Norse.

And also, we're talking about what we know and a lot of what we don't know about those

enigmatic Norse gods and Norse spirituality in general.

And here's a sample of what they're listening to right now.

Death is a strange thing.

And how we relate to death can tell us about ourselves where we see our place in the

world and what we hope for the future.

When we search for Scandinavian burials from the Viking Age, often what we find are

mounds located near a village, presumably so that those left behind can visit the grave.

The mounds are sometimes marked by a pole or a stone.

We rarely find runestones because runestones are typically placed at locations that would

have had heavy traffic so that they'd be viewed often.

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